- Overview
- UI Automation
- Applications and technologies automated with UI Automation
- Project compatibility
- UI-ANA-016 - Pull Open Browser URL
- UI-ANA-017 - ContinueOnError True
- UI-ANA-018 - List OCR/Image Activities
- UI-DBP-006 - Container Usage
- UI-DBP-013 - Excel Automation Misuse
- UI-DBP-030 - Forbidden Variables Usage In Selectors
- UI-PRR-001 - Simulate Click
- UI-PRR-002 - Simulate Type
- UI-PRR-003 - Open Application Misuse
- UI-PRR-004 - Hardcoded Delays
- UI-REL-001 - Large Idx in Selectors
- UI-SEC-004 - Selector Email Data
- UI-SEC-010 - App/Url Restrictions
- UI-USG-011 - Non Allowed Attributes
- UX-SEC-010 - App/Url Restrictions
- UX-DBP-029 - Insecure Password Use
- UI-PST-001 - Audit Log Level in Project Settings
- UiPath Browser Migration Tool
- Clipping region
- Computer Vision Recorder
- Activate
- Anchor Base
- Attach Browser
- Attach Window
- Block User Input
- Callout
- Check
- Click
- Click Image
- Click Image Trigger
- Click OCR Text
- Click Text
- Click Trigger
- Close Application
- Close Tab
- Close Window
- Context Aware Anchor
- Copy Selected Text
- Element Attribute Change Trigger
- Element Exists
- Element Scope
- Element State Change Trigger
- Export UI Tree
- Extract Structured Data
- Find Children
- Find Element
- Find Image
- Find Image Matches
- Find OCR Text Position
- Find Relative Element
- Find Text Position
- Get Active Window
- Get Ancestor
- Get Attribute
- Get Event Info
- Get From Clipboard
- Get Full Text
- Get OCR Text
- Get Password
- Get Position
- Get Source Element
- Get Text
- Get Visible Text
- Go Back
- Go Forward
- Go Home
- Google Cloud Vision OCR
- Hide Window
- Highlight
- Hotkey Trigger
- Hover
- Hover Image
- Hover OCR Text
- Hover Text
- Image Exists
- Indicate On Screen
- Inject .NET Code
- Inject Js Script
- Invoke ActiveX Method
- Key Press Trigger
- Load Image
- Maximize Window
- Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR
- Microsoft OCR
- Microsoft Project Oxford Online OCR
- Minimize Window
- Monitor Events
- Mouse Trigger
- Move Window
- Navigate To
- OCR Text Exists
- On Element Appear
- On Element Vanish
- On Image Appear
- On Image Vanish
- Open Application
- Open Browser
- Refresh Browser
- Replay User Event
- Restore Window
- Save Image
- Select Item
- Select Multiple Items
- Send Hotkey
- Set Clipping Region
- Set Focus
- Set Text
- Set To Clipboard
- Set Web Attribute
- Show Window
- Start Process
- System Trigger
- Take Screenshot
- Tesseract OCR
- Text Exists
- Tooltip
- Type Into
- Type Secure Text
- Use Foreground
- Wait Attribute
- Wait Element Vanish
- Wait Image Vanish
- Application Event Trigger
- Check/Uncheck
- Check App State
- Check Element
- Click
- Click Event Trigger
- Close Popup
- Drag and Drop
- Extract Table Data
- For Each UI Element
- Get Attribute
- Get Browser Data
- Get Text
- Get URL
- Go to URL
- Highlight
- Hover
- Inject Js Script
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Keypress Event Trigger
- Mouse Scroll
- Navigate Browser
- Select Item
- Set Browser Data
- Set Runtime Browser
- Set Text
- Take Screenshot
- Type Into
- Use Application/Browser
- Perform browser search and retrieve results using UI Automation APIs
- Web Browsing
- Find Images
- Click Images
- Trigger and Monitor Events
- Create and Override Files
- HTML Pages: Extract and Manipulate Information
- Window Manipulation
- Automated List Selection
- Find and Manipulate Window Elements
- Manage Text Automation
- Load and Process Images
- Manage Mouse Activated Actions
- Automate Application Runtime
- Automated Run of a Local Application
- Browser Navigation
- Web Automation
- Trigger Scope Example
- Computer Vision Local Server
- Mobile Automation
- Release notes
- Project compatibility
- Get Log Types
- Get Logs
- Get Page Source
- Get Device Orientation
- Get Session Identifier
- Install App
- Manage Current App
- Manage Other App
- Open DeepLink
- Open URL
- Mobile Device Connection
- Directional Swipe
- Draw Pattern
- Positional Swipe
- Press Hardware Button
- Set Device Orientation
- Take Screenshot
- Take Screenshot Part
- Element Exists
- Execute Command
- Get Attribute
- Get Selected Item
- Get Text
- Set Selected Item
- Set Text
- Swipe
- Tap
- Type Text
- Terminal
Check App State
UiPath.UIAutomationNext.Activities.NCheckState
Checks the state of an application or web browser by verifying if an element appears in or disappears from the user interface, and can execute one set of activities if the element is found and a different set of activities if the element is not found.
It can monitor an entire application for changes, not only a single UI element.
This activity can be used both inside and outside a Use Application/Browser activity.
It can also be used as a condition for the Retry Scope activity.
This activity is compatible with Object Repository.
Designer panel
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Click Indicate in App/Browser to indicate the UI element to use as target.
After you indicate the target, select the Menu button to access the following options:
- Indicate target on screen - Indicate the target again.
- Edit target - Open the selection mode to configure the target.
- Indicate in any app - When used inside a Use Application/Browser activity, you can select this option to check application states for windows or elements not associated with the current application instance without having to add a new application card.
- Remove informative screenshot - Remove the screenshot of the target application or web page.
- Add to Object Repository - Add the current UI element to a library project, from where it can be reused throughout your automation process.
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Wait for - Select which event to use for determining the state of the application or browser:
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Element to appear - Wait for the element to appear in the user interface. If you select this option:
- Add the activities to execute if the element appears in the Target appears block.
- Add the activities to execute if the element does not appear in the Target does not appear block.
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Element to disappear - Wait for the element to disappear from the user interface. If you select this option:
- Add the activities to execute if the element disappears in the Target disappears block.
- Add the activities to execute if the element does not disappear in the Target does not disappear block.
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- Seconds - The amount of time to wait for the element to appear or disappear before executing one of the two activity blocks. You can choose a predetermined value from the drop-down menu. The default value is 5 seconds.
- Click Toggle branches in the body of the activity to configure the visibility of the Target appears and Target does not appear containers where you can add activities to execute, depending on the state. You can work with both containers, either one of them, or none. By default, both blocks are visible.
Properties panel
Common
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Delay before - Delay (in seconds) between the time the previous activity is completed and the time this activity begins performing any operations. The default value is 0.2 seconds. Adding a delay between activities ensures that one activity has enough time to complete before the next activity begins.
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Display name - The name displayed for the activity in the Designer panel. A display name is automatically generated when you indicate a target.
Input
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Target - The target element. Target element must be set. Before indicating on screen, this field is set to
(null)
. Once the target is indicated, all properties regarding the element that was indicated are displayed.- CV Control type - Indicates the type of control identified using Computer Vision.
- CV Text - Indicates the text identified using Computer Vision.
- Fuzzy selector - The parameters for the fuzzy selector.
- Native text - The text that is used to identify the UI element.
- Responsive websites - Enable responsive websites layout.
- Strict selector - The strict selector generated for the UI element.
- Targeting methods -
The selector types that you want to use for identifying the element. This
property can be set to any combination from the drop-down menu:
- None
- Strict selector
- Fuzzy selector
- Image
- Native text
- Computer
Vision - To use Computer Vision as a targeting method, you
need to go to Project Settings > Computer Vision
and make sure to set the correct server endpoint. You can leave this
field as it is and use UiPath Cloud, which is filled-in by default,
or you can enter another value either by selecting any of the other
public endpoints specific to a server
region or your own on-premises server.
Another way of using Computer Vision as a targeting method is to set Use Local Server to True. This implies that the UiPath.ComputerVision.LocalServer package is installed in your project. When Local Server is enabled, the server value is over-written. However, the Local Server is not available in cross-platform projects.
- Visibility check -
Checks whether the UI element is visible or not. You can choose one of three
options from the drop-down menu:
- None - Does not check for visibility.
- Interactive (for Fuzzy Selector) - Default option. Checks if the element is potentially visible, ignoring page scroll and obstructions by other apps, or the fact that the application is minimized. This check is useful when trying to ensure that you are not targeting invisible elements that exist in the DOM but are hidden.
- Fully visible - Checks if the UI element is visible or not.
- Wait for page load -
Before performing the action, wait for the application to become ready to
accept input. You can choose one of three options from the drop-down menu:
- None - Does not wait for the target to be ready.
- Interactive - Waits until only a part of the app is loaded.
- Complete - Waits for the entire app to be loaded.
- Window selector (Application instance) - The selector that is used for the application window. Only applicable when the window attach mode is set to Application instance.
Input/Output Element
- Input element - The UI element
on which the activity is executed, stored in an
UIElement
object. This field supports onlyUIElement
objects. This object can be obtained from the Output Element property field of other UI Automation activities. - Output element - Outputs a
target UI Element and stores it in a
UIElement
object, which can be further used to target the same element with other activities.
Misc
- Private - If selected, the
values of variables and arguments are no longer logged at Verbose level. This field
supports only
Boolean
(True, False) values. The default value is False.
Options
- Timeout (seconds) - See seconds in the Designer panel.
- Wait for (appear/disappear) - See Wait for in the Designer panel.
Output
- Result - Indicates if the element exists or not. The field supports only
Boolean
variables. Optionally, you can save this value (True/False) for later use, or save it in a cell in a parent Excel file or the Project Notebook.
- Work in scope - Choose the browser tab rendering the web application to automate.
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Indicate target on screen - Indicate the UI element to use as target.
After you indicate the target, select the plus button to access the following options:
- Indicate target on screen - Indicate the target again.
- Edit target - Open the selection mode to configure the target.
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Wait for (appear/disappear) - Select which event to use for determining the state of the application or browser:
-
Element to appear - Wait for the element to appear in the user interface. If you select this option:
- Add the activities to execute if the element appears in the IfExists block.
- Add the activities to execute if the element does not appear in the IfNotExists block.
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Element to disappear - Wait for the element to disappear from the user interface. If you select this option:
- Add the activities to execute if the element disappears in the IfExists block.
- Add the activities to execute if the element does not disappear in the IfNotExists block.
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- Timeout (seconds) - The amount of time to wait for the element to appear or disappear before executing one of the two activity blocks. The default value is 5 seconds.
Additional options
Timings
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Delay before - Delay (in seconds) between the time the previous activity is completed and the time this activity begins performing any operations. The default value is 0.2 seconds. Adding a delay between activities ensures that one activity has enough time to complete before the next activity begins.
Options
- Check visibility - When enabled, the activity also checks whether the UI element is visible or not.
Input/Output
- State - A true or false value indicating the detected state of the target.
- Input element - The UI element
on which the activity is executed, stored in an
UIElement
object. This field supports onlyUIElement
objects. This object can be obtained from the Output Element property field of other UI Automation activities. - Output element - Outputs a
target UI Element and stores it in a
UIElement
object, which can be further used to target the same element with other activities.